"'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident" tomshardware.com
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This sounds similar to an incident targeting multiple U.S. military commissaries a couple of months ago. daily.dev
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Any wide-scale attacks by Russia and/or China will also involve attacks against civilian infrastructure, from banking to trucking to hospitals to power companies. The goal is to paralyze and disrupt the West's ability to make sense of events and reach consensus on how to respond in a timely manner. The Danes know this and are already preparing. bsky.app
👀 "Danmarks Nationalbank, the Danish central bank, has launched a financial systems security project. to establish a Dormant Emergency Bank (DEB) to serve as a robust reserve bank in the event of a massive cyberattack against a large banking institution ..." gfmag.com
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The Swedes are also hardening their civilian systems. bsky.app
Swedish consumers can now buy essential goods with their Mastercard and Visa cards without an internet connection. Riksbank wants to go further by enabling offline purchases with Swish, a local mobile payments system that bypasses the Visa and Mastercard networks altogether. #bankingsovereignty
If you have not been paying attention, now is a good time to start. While this systemic risk requires a collective, whole-of-society response, it doesn't hurt to be prepared at the local and personal levels. bsky.app
The warnings are coming fast & furious. "UK to warn citizens to stock up on food amid threat from climate crisis & hostile states. Government resilience campaign aims to ensure people can cope in a national disaster, in order to free resources for most vulnerable" theguardian.com
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